Nobody wants this to become commonplace. It’s not, and it won’t, and I don’t think the American public outside of law schools and Berkeley are losing even as much sleep over this as Hitchens is.

___________________

UPDATE: COMPARE AND CONTRAST: I remembered something from a while back on Hot Air. Here’s Fox’s Steve Harrigan getting a more intensive demonstration of waterboarding in November of 2006. He’s handling it a bit better than Hitchens did. “GHAACK! OH CRAP THAT WAS HORRIBLE! Okay, let’s try phase three.”